Ganascia Jean-Gabriel

Sorbonne University

Engineer and philosopher by training, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia is currently Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Sorbonne University, a EurAI Fellow, an honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France and a member of LIP6 (Laboratory of Computer Science of the Sorbonne University). His current research activities focus on artificial intelligence, computational ethics, computer ethics and digital humanities. He has published more than 500 papers in conference proceedings, scientific journals and books. He is also the author of a dozen books for the general public, the latest of which, entitled “AI Explained to Humans”, has been published by Éditions du Seuil in September 2024. 

In addition to his academic publications and his my many other writings, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia regularly publishes two chronicles on the ethics of science, one every month in the magazine “Sciences et avenir” (https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/), and one every trimester in the magazine “La Recherche” (https://www.larecherche.fr/).

Currently, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia chairs the Ethics Committee of France Travail that is the French National Employment Agency, AFAS ("Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences") that is one of the oldest French scientific societies and the Steering Committee of the CHEC (Cycle des Hautes Études de la Culture). He was also President of the CNRS Ethics Committee (COMETS) between 2016 and 2021.